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      Probably to position themselves in relation to Microsoft offerings eager to siphon as much user data as possible for their own ratty “AI” and passing the rest off to third parties?

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          why now exactly?

          Oh, there’s a huge push to use Copilot in the entire Microsoft office suite now. My workplace is going all in on the damn thing, and I’m sure LibreOffice are also trying to nap some users as the next Windows version looms.

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    Is it less of a crashoholic yet? It’s utterly useless even with all the handy features

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      This, 100%.

      I recently started using Linux as my daily driver and I needed to make a step-by-step procedure with screenshots for a client, so I figured I would create a document in Writer and export it as a PDF.

      It was constantly hanging every time I would insert a couple of images and I would have to kill it and lose my progress to get it to close.

      In the end, I ended up creating the file using Google Docs and it went as smooth as can be

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        I’ve tried a bunch now, libreoffice would be my pick if it were stable. But given how heckin’ big that app is now, I doubt a fix is coming ever.